Kendrick's Top 5 Features Since good kid, m.A.A.d. city

Kendrick's Top 5 Features Since good kid, m.A.A.d. city Lyrics

Since the release of good kid, m.A.A.d city back on October 22, 2012, Kendrick has been a hot artist to get features from. Today we narrow it down to his Top 5 from a year after his debut album's release

Kendrick talked about how he felt when Tip asked him to be a feature on the track:

I’ve been listening to him since day one. I consider him amongst the elite still to this day, along with Jay-Z and Nas and people I looked up to coming up. For him to actually acknowledge my talents is a great feeling.

Kendrick ends this track with his love interest getting a good dose of karma on her, now Kendrick being rich and she, well:

Fast forward, wait is that you?
With them big old thighs after school?
And your 3 kids and 3 baby daddies
And car note that’s overdue?

I have no idea what he said, and I had no idea he was gonna do that. I remember seeing him talking to a Spanish dude while he was writing it and he came up with that and I was very upset because he killed it.

Just the first bar let's you know that Kendrick is ready to go and on the top of his game, and very confident:

Kendrick fit the beat well, going at his absolute best for over 3 minutes, showing his case for why he is a cut above the rest of everybody. To go with the millions of tweets, many artists made responses as they felt hurt and dissed that Kendrick would be so braggy and call out all those other rappers. No doubt Kendrick dropped one of the most powerful and influential verses of the year, and this list isn't even over yet. Big Sean spoke about the track, (which he should be getting very tired of doing):

When I heard [Kendrick's] verse I was like I’m not about to go back and change my verse. That’s cheating...That ain't how G’s move. I wanted to do that for the culture of Hip Hop as opposed to myself, trying to protect myself. When three people hop on a song somebody's gunna have a stand-out verse, always

That sets the dark tone Kendrick takes to tell this tale about his family in something like an outtake or lost track from his very personal debut album. He goes everywhere from his brother, to his aunt, to even his own father, even going so far as to curse him out on the track. Pusha spoke about the track, (which he did even after Control, but he explains he asked before that):

I never heard [Kendrick] talk like that, I felt it was really dope that Kendrick hopped in my world — the street life — and [put] his perspective on it. I asked Kendrick to get on 'Nosetalgia' so long ago and he did," Push revealed. "Kendrick [is a] young lyricist in regards to his time in the game and I appreciate it. I reached out to him ages ago.

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About “Kendrick's Top 5 Features Since good kid, m.A.A.d. city”

Weeks after his album dropped, fans and many critics alike were already hailing it a “classic”. In the year following his epic debut, Compton’s human sacrifice continues to kill it with several golden verses. Here are five of those gems.

Honorable Mentions:

1 Train – A$AP Rocky

Fragile – Tech N9ne

We Up – 50 Cent

Solo Dolo Part II – Kid Cudi

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